Haul thrills physicists, who previously knew of just a few hundred of these peculiar materials

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Meteorites May Have Created Some of Earth's Oldest Rocks

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:45:00 GMT

A barrage of impacts more than four billion years ago is linked to ancient stones found in Canada

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Gene-Silencing Technology Gets First Drug Approval after 20-Year Wait

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:35:00 GMT

The U.S. FDA decision comes after fits and stops for RNA-interference therapies

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Crickets Carve Tools to Amplify Their Chirps

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:40:00 GMT

The insects fashion and use "baffles"—sound controllers—made of leaves to produce sound more efficiently. Jason G. Goldman reports.

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Computerized Chemical Toxicity Prediction Beats Animal Testing

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:24:00 GMT

Researchers programmed a computer to compare structures and toxic effects of different chemicals, making it possible to then predict the toxicity of new chemicals based on their structural similarity...

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Effort to Diversify Medical Research Raises Thorny Questions of Race

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:45:00 GMT

A federal study aiming to collect the health information of one million U.S. residents is limited by the very problems it hopes to solve

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Solar Eclipse of 2017 Boosted Science Interest

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:12:00 GMT

The Michigan Scientific Literacy Survey of 2017 found that last year's total solar eclipse got Americans more interested in celestial science.

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U.S. to Launch Space Force in 2020, Pence Says

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:15:00 GMT

The Vice President provided more details on the Trump administration’s controversial plans to create a new space-focused military branch

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The Irreplaceable Bee, an Epic Physics Experiment, and Other New Science Books

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

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Lunar Exploration Tech Tops NASA's "Tipping Point" Funding List

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 20:00:00 GMT

The agency awarded a total of $44 million to multiple firms developing crucial technologies for future space exploration